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Joseph Lubben Wins Fulbright to Venezuela
Lubben hopes to use what he
learns in Venezuela for Winter Term and other projects when he returns
to Oberlin.
PHOTOGRAPH BY JOHN SEYFRIED
MARCH 13, 1998--"Once you make a commitment, it's amazing how it can work out," says Joseph Lubben, visiting assistant professor of music theory. Lubben vowed he would "go with her no matter what" when his wife, a mathematician from Caracas, went to Venezuela in June to fulfill the two-year residency requirement of her student visa. Now he will go on a Fulbright fellowship.
Lubben will spend 1998-99 teaching music theory and analysis at the Universidad Simón Bolívar in Caracas. The university's music department wants to incorporate theory and analysis into the master's program, but has no faculty specializing in the areas and no funds to hire new faculty. Lubben will develop courses for the department in form and analysis, 16th- and 18th-century model composition, and analysis of 20th-century music that local faculty will be able to teach after he leaves. A research project, to study the rhythmic structure of certain Venezuelan popular and folk genres, and concert music that is derived from popular or folk idioms, is also on his agenda.
This article appeared originally in the March 13, 1998, issue of the Observer, Oberlin's former faculty and staff newspaper.
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